ArticleJournal of multidisciplinary healthcare2021
Loneliness Among Older Home-Dwelling Persons: A Challenge for Home Care Nurses.
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- The Significance of Social Connections and Health in Relation to Loneliness Experienced by Older Adults Living at Home: A Qualitative Study.Scandinavian journal of caring sciences · 2025Article
- Nurses' perspectives on clinical competence to identify loneliness and depression in older people in home care: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- [Strategies against loneliness-examples from an international comparative perspective].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2024Article
- Frailty Assessment and Its Impact on Loneliness among Older Adults Receiving Home-Based Healthcare during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Prevalence and determinants of loneliness among the oldest old living in institutionalized settings : Study findings from a representative survey.Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2024Article
- Adult day services: a potential antidote to social isolation and loneliness in marginalized older adults.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Social Contact and Belonging Among Older People Receiving Home Care Nursing.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Article
- Loneliness Among Older Adults Receiving Long-Term Home Care Services: A Quantitative Study.SAGE open nursingArticle
- Loneliness in Relation to Social Factors and Self-Reported Health Among Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
aimTo explore how nurses working in the home care service sector perceived the loneliness experienced by older people living at home, and how they met these lonely individuals' needs.
backgroundLoneliness is a well-known phenomenon among groups of older home-dwelling people and has been shown to be a health-related problem. Health care professionals working in the primary care sector, such as home care nurses, may be in the position to identify loneliness among at-home seniors. Identifying and addressing loneliness must become important issues in home care nursing.
designA qualitative study.
methodsFocus group interviews were performed with 11 home care nurses in Norway. The interviews were analyzed in accordance with manifest and latent content analysis. The Coreq checklist was followed.
findingsHome care nurses identified loneliness among older people as being a complex and sensitive phenomenon that activated conflicted thoughts, feelings and solutions in a system where older people's loneliness was generally not considered as a need requiring nursing care.
conclusionLoneliness among older people challenged the nurses with regard to communicating older people's feelings of loneliness and meeting their social needs. Organizational structures were perceived as being the main barriers to meeting these needs. Older people's feelings of loneliness stimulated nurses' reflections about the purpose of their nursing role. It is important to address loneliness among older home-dwelling people and include the issue in home care nursing in order to meet their need for social contact. Home nursing leaders must pay attention to the nurses' experiences, promote the nurses' acquisition of knowledge about this kind of loneliness and learn how to meet an older individual's needs. There should be a special focus on communicating with lonely older people in order to address their feelings loneliness.
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